Nontypical

How long is your guys gun season? Ours here in ontario starts tomorrow....goes for a week.

Heading out the door now, very windy here, the deer movement has dropped considerably, huntin a property with big cedar swamp hope the deer are hangin in there, hope you guys don't mind some ontario reports here....I'm just over the border from where you boys are!

Ya that is a massive 4 pt eh lol

I was set up in a strip of bush joining two major hardwood lots with beans on either side, I believe that the buck was already heading my way but I didn't see him before I started rattling, but like you said the decoy would most likely have done me good. It's a long walk to this spot tho which sucks for carrying a decoy out there since I'll already have my climber on my back...there's always next time right!

I find that rattling works good for the smaller bucks but when it comes to the big boys your more less giving away your position to them. This past weekend I smashed the antlers together and saw a 140" class 10 point come out only 50yrds away from me, it took him 45 mins to cover 20yrds towards me and by then it was too dark to shoot and he turned around and walked away since he didn't see where the sound was coming from. Like said in previous posts, a grunt tube is usually the ticket to get em to close the distance quick

Ramcat 3 blade really puts em for a serious dirt nap!

You running good swivels with your flasher? Those things twist line badly and could cause line breakage if your lines twisted enough